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Job summary

Main area
occupational health
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
357-LN-1909-24
Employer
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Town
Lincoln
Salary
£62,215 - £72,293 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/03/2025 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Head of Occupational Health Services Band 8B

NHS AfC: Band 8b

We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people.  We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.

We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.

Our values guide everything we do. They are:

  • Patient-centred – Putting patients at the heart of everything we do, listening and responding to their needs and wishes.
  • Safety – Following ULTH and professional guidelines. Speaking up to make sure patients and staff are safe from harm.
  • Excellence – Striving to be the best that we can be. Innovating and learning from others.
  • Compassion – Caring for patients and their loved ones in ways we would want for our friends and family.
  • Respect – Behaving and using language that demonstrates respect and courtesy to others. Zero tolerance to bullying, inequality, prejudice and discrimination.

If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.

We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” – stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.

So, what is in it for you?

  • Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.

Types of flexibility could include:

  • Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
  • Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
  • Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
  • Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
  • Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
  • NHS Pension: A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
  • Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
  • Bank working: The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.

In addition, there is more.

  • Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
  • Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
  • Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
  •  Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
  •  Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.

Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.

Job overview

The Head of Occupational Health Service will lead and manage the Occupational Health Service to provide high quality occupational health services for Lincoln Community Hospital Group and a range of external clients.  Providing overall leadership for the Occupational Health Service hosted by United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust and serving colleagues across the Lincolnshire Care System. 

Leading the Occupational Health Service, you will help colleagues stay at work or return to work following a period of unplanned absence, playing a key role in helping prevent illness and injuries related to work.  The work will be varied, combining leadership skills with influencing, and shaping the behaviours of individuals and organisations. 

The Head of Occupational Health Service requires strong leadership and management skills and an understanding of legislative requirements within the fields of occupational health, health and safety, and employment law.  Clinical knowledge and experience is essential to this role.   

The Head of Occupational Health Service will also ensure key performance indicators are met, in terms of patients, service level agreements and within assigned budgets. This post has a key focus on improvements, based on quality improvement principles, innovation, and the use of intelligent automation and will lead the service as it adopts industry best practice to SEQOHS standards.

Post will start on or after 1st May 2025

Main duties of the job

Effectively lead, manage and be responsible for ensuring the delivery of high-quality standards across the Occupational Health Service in a way that is responsive to the needs of Lincoln Community Hospitals Group and client organisations. 

Lead and be accountable for the design, creation and development of shared occupational health services.  Ensure best practice systems, policies, pathways and procedures are developed, monitored, maintained and continuously redeveloped to ensure high quality, leading edge, customer focused, value for money, efficient and effective service delivery within a bio-psycho-social model.

Ensure that effective systems and standard operating procedures (SOPs) are in place to offer an efficient and user-friendly service to customers/service users and that the systems are maintained and redeveloped on an on-going basis in conjunction with internal/external client and service needs (as assessed through client and service feedback from time to time) and in line with best practice, leading edge industry standards and NHS compliance standards. 

Draw on industry best practice and breaking technologies, identify opportunities to use automated and other technological opportunities to improve and optimise both the staff and customer experience, and translate these opportunities into practice across occupational health and other services for the county and beyond. 

Working for our organisation

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

 

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment.  From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

 

Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

 

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

 

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

 

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

 

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached role job description for both the description and the person specification as it relates to this role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Qualified Clinical Practitioner registered with appropriate regulatory body.
  • Level 7 standard of education (e.g., masters) or equivalent experience.
  • Previous experience of management and leadership at band 8b level.
Desirable criteria
  • Registered Specialist Practitioner Community Public Health Nurse (Part 3 NMC) or equivalent.

Evidence of Skills

Essential criteria
  • High level verbal and written communication skills, sufficient to write policy, plans, complex reports and engage with employees, managers and partners.
  • Confident in using ICT systems relevant to role, including Management Information Systems and MS Office
  • Excellent analytical skills with an aptitude for developing innovative solutions to complex issues

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Good general knowledge of the NHS and current clinical standards within Occupational Health services or equivalent/similar services.
  • Up to date knowledge of Health and Safety legislation and best practice guidance
  • Experience of strong leadership, inspiring others to deliver transformational projects and impactful results
  • Experience writing and implementing Policy and Strategy.
  • Experience of managing changing priorities and complex situations.
  • Experience of managing and controlling budgets, resources and funding
Desirable criteria
  • Clinical governance and audit knowledge.
  • Experience of working with private contractors
  • Specialist knowledge of health and safety governance and risk management.
  • Experience of working in Occupational Health in the NHS

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Kerry Swift
Job title
Deputy Director of People
Email address
[email protected]
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